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You Can’t Put a Price on the Health and Safety of Employees
When it comes to running a profitable plumbing company, health and safety issues can be a silent killer of profits. An injured...
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What Do You Do When Customers Question the Cost of Service?
Property managers and real estate investors can mean steady, reliable work for plumbers. If you are willing to provide terms, these groups...
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Build a Safety Training Toolbox
Whether you are required to hold them or not, safety meetings are critical to protecting your workers and your company from the...
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5 Recruiting and Training Strategies For Your Plumbing Business
If you want to grow your plumbing business, you need to recruit and train a team. But you can’t just hire anyone....
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Students Collaborate to Improve Public Sanitation
Teams from the United States, South Africa, Australia and India worked to design and install communal restroom facilities for residents of Diepsloot,...
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Coffee with Caleffi: Pumped Glycol vs. Drainback Revisited
Bob “Hot Rod” Rohr, Caleffi training and education manager, leads an online webinar “Pumped Glycol vs. Drainback Revisited," from noon to 1...
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For 5-Star Results, Be SMART About Your Service
I bet most plumbing managers believe good customer service plays out like a movie script — right down to happy, smiling faces in...
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3 Tips for Transitioning Your Plumbing Business
If you’re part of a family plumbing business, there’s good news and bad news, says Family Business USA president Henry Hutcheson.More than...
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Coffee with Caleffi: Applying Pressure Reducing Valves in Plumbing Systems
Julius Ballanco, P.E., president of JB Engineering and Code Consulting, leads an online webinar, “Applying Pressure Reducing Valves in Plumbing Systems,” from...
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Is My Water Safe to Drink?
The ongoing and future water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has raised many questions from people in all parts of the United States....
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What Should Your Customer Service Representative Know?
What are the most important qualities your customer service representative (CSR) should possess? Is it a smile that radiates through the phone?...
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How Do You Ensure a New Employee is a Good Fit for Your Plumbing Company?
Many plumbing contractors may have already made the move toward outsourcing payroll services, employee benefits and/or workers’ compensation/risk management. How many, though,...
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All-Women Plumbing Company Teaches Female Homeowners How to Make Minor Repairs
An all-women plumbing company in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada, is offering female homeowners courses in how to fix common plumbing issues so they...
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Coffee with Caleffi: Piping Connection Options in Hydronic Systems
Bob Rohr, training and education manager with Caleffi Hydronic Solutions, leads an online webinar, “Piping Connection Options in Hydronic Systems,” from noon...
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Why Join a Trade Association?
Once upon a time, being part of trade association was practically a given. Regardless of the industry, the pins and certificates of...
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Trenches Don’t Have to be Deep to be Dangerous
Note: This is the second of a two-part series on trench safety and the story of a cave-in survivor who dispels the...














